In some scenarios, particularly when writing scripts, error handling boilerplate code tends to obscure the nominal flow, which can make the script overall harde

In some scenarios, particularly when writing scripts, error handling boilerplate code tends to obscure the nominal flow, which can make the script overall harder to debug and thus net more likely to have errors. Coincidentally I was annoyed by this very fact a few years ago so I developed https://www.npmjs.com/package/callback-wrappers https://www.npmjs.com/package/callback-wrappers which made the boilerplate for common error handling scenarios (logging, throwing, exiting, emitting, etc.) much terser and moves it to the end of the functions so it's less in your face. Never made much use of it, and it's so non-canonical that I'm loathe to advocate it too much, but it would make me happy some sort of standard syntactic sugar could be introduced that allowed comparable brevity.